'Look, I don't understand': Tom Homan unable to defend why Trump stalled on TSA pay [View all]

By Tom Boggioni
Published March 29, 2026 10:21 AM ET

Donald Trump’s border czar, who oversaw the president's demands to deploy ICE agents to the nation’s overwhelmed airports, was at a loss for words on CNN on Sunday morning as to why the president just didn’t pay TSA agents from the start when funding ran out.

With the country’s airports in chaos due to TSA no-showing at their jobs since they were not being paid, Tom Homan filled in the gaps to a slight degree with ICE agents pulled from their jobs, rounding up immigrants off the streets to help out overwhelmed TSA agents and harried travelers.

On “State of the Union,” host Jake Tapper had to ask Homan twice why Trump didn’t alleviate the problem weeks ago.

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Hey Tapper did you ask this bagman what he did with the 50 thousand that was handed to him?
And if you haven't figured out by now Tapper...........his boss and the entire crime family is skimming money out the taxpayers...........you know fleecing every agency under the moon/sun ....................

and then this classic fascist speak from Holman...........

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The CNN host pressed, “Once TSA agents start getting paid, will ICE agents leave the airports?”

“We'll see,” the Trump official replied. “You know, it depends how many TSA agents come back to work, how many TSA agents have actually quit and have no plan coming back to work. I'm working very closely with the TSA administrator and the director to decide what airport needs what. But you know, God bless the men and women, right? So they're doing the job, they're plugging those holes or they're keeping the security airport at a high level, again, because of heightened threat.”